Disturbing photos have emerged of a one-time music teacher dressed up as a clown and wearing Harry Potter-themed pyjamas – as he and his boyfriend both admit to vile child sex offences.
Benjamin Heels, 33 – who has worked on multiple musical productions in Melbourne’s south-east including Priscilla Queen of the Desert – pleaded guilty to a string of 35 offences on Friday.
The list of charges Heels admitted to, seen by Daily Mail Australia, include engaging in a sexual activity in the presence of a child under 16, intentionally sexually touching a child and producing child abuse material.
Fronting court alongside him was his boyfriend Tristan Cullinan-Smayle, who pleaded guilty to a separate series of charges.
They included possessing and transmitting child abuse material and procuring a child for sexual activity.
The court heard Cullinan-Smayle’s offending went back to December 2017, when at 28, he used a carriage service to procure a child to engage in sexual activity.
The pair were both the subject of interim non-publication court orders which prevented the disclosure of their identities, and also to spare them ’embarrassment’, the orders said. Those orders have both expired.
The case was first reported by the Herald-Sun.
Heels was arrested on May 26, 2021 in the Melbourne suburb of Berwick where he was caught with child abuse material on an electronic device.
The court heard Heels produced child abuse material at that location between January 1 and May 20 – six days before his arrest.
He had formerly worked at the Fountain Gate Secondary College as a music teacher and had been involved in numerous amateur community stage productions.
It comes as a bizarre Facebook post surfaced showing Heels expressing concern to parents about children singing songs about sex.
In June 2020, Heels said that listening to children singing songs about sex made him ‘uncomfortable’.
‘Parents please make sure you are sending your kids to a vocal coach who understands their voice,’ he wrote.
‘Call me old fashioned but I cringe and get so uncomfortable hearing children sing songs about sex.’
Heels and Cullinan-Smayle will front the County Court later this month.
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